Refuge

Silence. Well, they say it's golden. In my case, it's as a result of concentration on other things, like my various, but ultimately equally pointless essays, for school. I also got round to finishing the design of my website (www.jacobbutler.co.nr), then promptly decided to redesign it again, soon after having finished it. It's been an odd summer holiday. Most of the time after the trip to England, I have spent doing the above, and have only left The Hague once, and that was to get my hair cut in Rotterdam. (Indeed, I am so averse to change that I still go to the barber's I went to in Rotterdam, out of some distorted laziness which means I find it easier to take the trip to Rotterdam than to find one in The Hague. It was quite nice to go to Rotterdam again, though, with all the tall buildings and the 'big city' feel to the place. I've just realised that I'm still inside brackets. Better get out.)

Something which came to my attention the other day, and you will have to excuse my vagueness but I forget the precise details, was that some part of the Anglican church in America has allied itself with a group of churches in Kenya, due to what Radio 4 termed as their deep opposition to homosexuality. Normally I couldn't have cared less about this kind of thing, but it's funny (as in peculiar) because, unless I am being very naive (which is perfectly possible), saying you are opposed to homosexuality is like saying one opposes the Earth orbiting the Sun. Oh. What a minute. Bad example. The point is, opposing something does not somehow refute its existence. I assume their issue is really with their consecration in the church. It just seems like a peculiar way of saying it.